Title: Six screenplaysAuthor: Riskin, RobertPublished: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: Screenwriter Robert Riskin (1897-1955) was a towering figure even among the giants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Known for his unique blend of humor and romance, wisecracking and idealism, Riskin teamed with director Frank Capra to produce some of his most memorable films. Pat McGilligan has collected . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The Magnificent Ambersons: a reconstructionAuthor: Carringer, Robert LPublished: University of California Press, 1993Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: Orson Welles considered The Magnificent Ambersons the crucial turning point in his career. He said, " They destroyed Ambersons and it destroyed me." In 1942, while Welles was away, RKO Studios drastically recut the completed film. None of that deleted footage is known to survive.Now film scholar Rob . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Comedy/cinema/theoryAuthor: Horton, AndrewPublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of critical and theoretical approaches to explore this curious and fascinating subject. The result is a . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Film quarterly: forty years--a selectionAuthor: Henderson, BrianPublished: University of California Press, 1999Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenne . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Roberto RosselliniAuthor: Brunette, PeterPublished: University of California Press, 1996Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArtsPublisher's Description: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Play it again, Sam: retakes on remakesAuthor: Horton, AndrewPublished: University of California Press, 1998Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the cinematic remake. As cinema enters its second century, more remakes are appearing than ever before, and these writers consider the full range: Hollywood . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957Author: Smoodin, Eric LorenPublished: University of California Press, 2002Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArtsPublisher's Description: The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blac . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Placing movies: the practice of film criticismAuthor: Rosenbaum, JonathanPublished: University of California Press, 1995Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice , is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today. Placing Movies , the first collection of his work, gathers together thirty of his most distinctive . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Light moving in time: studies in the visual aesthetics of avant-garde filmAuthor: Wees, William C. (William Charles) 1935-Published: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing th . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Hitchcock on Hitchcock: selected writings and interviewsAuthor: Hitchcock, Alfred 1899-Published: University of California Press, 1995Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the ci . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Eloquent gestures: the transformation of performance style in the Griffith Biograph filmsAuthor: Pearson, Roberta EPublished: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a critical period in the history of film acting: the . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Sundance to Sarajevo: film festivals and the world they madeAuthor: Turan, KennethPublished: University of California Press, 2002Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema ma . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Backstory 2: interviews with screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950sAuthor: McGilligan, PatrickPublished: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | TheatrePublisher's Description: "Backstory" is the screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this companion volume to McGilligan's widely praised Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age , fourteen studio scribes active in later decades rail and reminisce about thei . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Black African cinemaAuthor: Ukadike, Nwachukwu FrankPublished: University of California Press, 1994Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | FilmPublisher's Description: From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmakin . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Writing the character-centered screenplayAuthor: Horton, AndrewPublished: University of California Press, 1994Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | Film | WritingPublisher's Description: "We need good screenwriters who understand character." Everywhere Andrew Horton traveled in researching this book - from Hollywood to Hungary - he heard the same refrain. Yet most of the standard how-to books on screenwriting follow the film industry's earlier lead in focusing almost exclusively on . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The films of Oshima Nagisa: images of a Japanese iconoclastAuthor: Turim, Maureen Cheryn 1951-Published: University of California Press, 1998Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | Film | JapanPublisher's Description: This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For almost forty years, Oshima has produced provocative films that have received wide distribution and in . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Modern drama and the rhetoric of theaterAuthor: Worthen, William B 1955-Published: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: CinemaandPerformanceArts | Theatre | RhetoricPublisher's Description: The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identi . . . [more]Similar Items